On the rise: India has entered a new state of existence – spirited, spunky and raring to go. It’s where the winds of change blow strongest – but not at the risk of uprooting traditions. Bharat Sikka captured the Indian beauty in Bandra, an electric pocket of cool in the heart of Mumbai, where the heritage and the hipster come together in a magical tableau.

Ruven Afanador, a photographer of limitless imagination, powerful vision and profound sense of self. His work is distinguished by an opulent classicism nuanced by an irreverent point of view. His idiosyncratic visual language is informed by the fierce emotion and lavish style of his Latin American heritage, filtered by an exquisitely mannered elegance saturated with singular erotic charge.